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Parallaxic Praxis: Multimodal Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Research Design [B&W] (Paperback): Pauline Sameshima Parallaxic Praxis: Multimodal Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Research Design [B&W] (Paperback)
Pauline Sameshima
R1,770 Discovery Miles 17 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
rock philosophy: meditations on art and desire (Hardcover): Torgeir Fjeld rock philosophy: meditations on art and desire (Hardcover)
Torgeir Fjeld
R1,593 Discovery Miles 15 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Art of Cultural Exchange - Translation and Transformation between the UK and Brazil (2012-2016) (Hardcover): Paul Heritage The Art of Cultural Exchange - Translation and Transformation between the UK and Brazil (2012-2016) (Hardcover)
Paul Heritage
R1,850 Discovery Miles 18 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Philosophy And The Arts (Hardcover): Andrew Harrison Philosophy And The Arts (Hardcover)
Andrew Harrison
R3,545 Discovery Miles 35 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This text is part of the "Bristol Introductions" series which aims to present perspectives on philosophical themes, using non-technical language, for both the new and the advanced scholar. This introductory text examines how questions of understanding the pictorial and narrative arts relate to central themes in philosophy. It addresses such issues as: how can pictorial and narrative arts be usefully contrasted and compared?; what in principle can be, or cannot be, communicated in such different media?; why does it seem that, at its best, artistic communication goes beyond the limitations of its own medium - seeming to think and to communicate the incommunicable?; and what kinds of thought are exercised in the pictorial and narrative arts? Both refer to or represent what we take the world to be, and in so doing make the concepts of aesthetic judgement and imagination unavoidable. The ways of understanding art are ways of understanding what it is to be human. Much of what baffles or misleads us in the arts invokes what puzzles us about ourselves. The issues raised are therefore central to philosophy as a discipline - failures in understanding art can be philosophical failures.

Cricut Project Ideas 2 Books in 1 - Fantastic Projects Designed For Your family and Events! (Hardcover): Sienna Tally Cricut Project Ideas 2 Books in 1 - Fantastic Projects Designed For Your family and Events! (Hardcover)
Sienna Tally
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Ekphrastic Encounters - New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts (Hardcover): David Kennedy, Richard Meek Ekphrastic Encounters - New Interdisciplinary Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts (Hardcover)
David Kennedy, Richard Meek
R2,636 Discovery Miles 26 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally regarded as a form of paragone (competition) between word and image. This interdisciplinary collection of essays seeks to complicate this critical paradigm and proposes a more reciprocal model of ekphrasis that involves an encounter or exchange between visual and textual cultures. This critical and theoretical shift demands a new form of ekphrastic poetics, which is less concerned with representational and institutional struggles, and more concerned with ideas of ethics, affect and intersubjectivity. Ekphrastic encounters brings together leading scholars working in the field of word-and-image studies and offers a fresh exploration of ekphrastic texts from the Renaissance to the present day. Taken together, the chapters establish a new set of theoretical frameworks for exploring the ekphrastic encounter. -- .

Hegel and the Art of Negation - Negativity, Creativity and Contemporary Thought (Hardcover): Andrew W. Hass Hegel and the Art of Negation - Negativity, Creativity and Contemporary Thought (Hardcover)
Andrew W. Hass
R3,895 Discovery Miles 38 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of history have seemed less compelling than they were for previous generations of philosophers, is study of Hegel again becoming important? Fashionable contemporary theorists like Francis Fukuyama and Slavoj Zizek, as well as radical theologians like Thomas Altizer, have all recently been influenced by Hegel, the philosopher whose philosophy now seems somehow perennial- or, to borrow an idea from Nietzsche-eternally returning. Exploring this revival via the notion of 'negation' in Hegelian thought, and relating such negativity to sophisticated ideas about art and artistic creation, Andrew W. Hass argues that the notion of Hegelian negation moves us into an expansive territory where art, religion and philosophy may all be radically conceived and broken open into new forms of philosophical expression. The implications of such a revived Hegelian philosophy are, the author argues, vast and current. Hegel thereby becomes the philosopher par excellence who can address vital issues in politics, economics, war and violence, leading to a new form of globalised ethics. Hass makes a bold and original contribution to religion, philosophy, art and the history of ideas.

Cricut Project Ideas Vol.2 - Hundreds of Fabulous Projects For Your Events and For Your Home (Hardcover): Sienna Tally Cricut Project Ideas Vol.2 - Hundreds of Fabulous Projects For Your Events and For Your Home (Hardcover)
Sienna Tally
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art - The Analyti c Tradition, An Anthology (Hardcover): Peter Lamarque, Stein Haugom Olsen Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art - The Analyti c Tradition, An Anthology (Hardcover)
Peter Lamarque, Stein Haugom Olsen
R4,776 Discovery Miles 47 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This anthology provides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions of analytic philosophy to aesthetics and the philosophy of art, from the earliest beginnings in the 1950's to the present time.
Traces the contributions of the analytic tradition to aesthetics and the philosophy of art, from the 1950's to the present time.
Designed as a comprehensive guide to the field, it presents the most often-cited papers that students and researchers encounter.
Addresses a wide range of topics, including identifying art, ontology, intention and interpretation, values of art, aesthetic properties, fictionality, and the aesthetics of nature.
Explores particular art forms, including pictorial art, literature, music, and the popular arts.

The Watercolor Book - Materials and Techniques for Today's Artists (Hardcover, Reprint ed.): David Dewey The Watercolor Book - Materials and Techniques for Today's Artists (Hardcover, Reprint ed.)
David Dewey
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Teachers in Action in America - From Madame Schizophrenia to the Iron Man Education, the Only Solution to Poverty in English... Teachers in Action in America - From Madame Schizophrenia to the Iron Man Education, the Only Solution to Poverty in English and Spanish Language (Hardcover)
Humphrey Humberto Pachecker
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adaptation in Visual Culture - Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Julie Grossman, R.Barton... Adaptation in Visual Culture - Images, Texts, and Their Multiple Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Julie Grossman, R.Barton Palmer
R5,268 Discovery Miles 52 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book gathers together essays written by leading scholars of adaptation studies to explore the full range of practices and issues currently of concern in the field. The chapters demonstrate how content and messaging are shared across an increasing number of platforms, whose interrelationships have become as intriguing as they are complex. Recognizing that a signature feature of contemporary culture is the convergence of different forms of media, the contributors of this book argue that adaptation studies has emerged as a key discipline that, unlike traditional literary and art criticism, is capable of identifying and analyzing the relations between source texts and adaptations created from them. Adaptation scholars have come to understand that these relations not only play out in individual case histories but are also institutional, and this collection shows how adaptation plays a key role in the functioning of cinema, television, art, and print media. The volume is essential reading for all those interested both in adaptation studies and also in the complex forms of intermediality that define contemporary culture in the 21st century.

Cricut Project Ideas Vol.1 - Hundreds of Fabulous Ideas for Your Projects Categorized by Material Type (Hardcover): Sienna Tally Cricut Project Ideas Vol.1 - Hundreds of Fabulous Ideas for Your Projects Categorized by Material Type (Hardcover)
Sienna Tally
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene (Hardcover): Julie Reiss Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
Julie Reiss
R2,124 Discovery Miles 21 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Love Beyond Death - The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts (Hardcover, New): Rudolph Binion Love Beyond Death - The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts (Hardcover, New)
Rudolph Binion
R3,104 Discovery Miles 31 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This richly illustrated volume explores the eroticization of death in the literature, art, and music of the nineteenth century, and in the popular culture of our time.

Death was the natural enemy of love in the arts of the West until the late eighteenth century, when the two mated in artistic fancy to celebrate death as a font of sensual bliss. Through the nineteenth century, voluptuous visions of death pervaded high culture. Keats fell half in love with easeful death, and, as Heine told it, Life only warms in death's cold arms. For Whitman, death was the word of the sweetest song. Flaubert tempted his Saint Anthony with Lust and Death fused into a single figure. Zola saw love and death intermixed in the somber pit of the human soul. At mid- century, painters and poets alike competed in depicting Ophelia drowning in ecstasy. At the century's end the figure of the femme fatale haunted the cultural elite. After 1914, the entire morbid complex sank into popular culture.

What was the source of this eroticization of death in the arts? To answer this question, Rudolph Binion explores a rich variety of prose and poetry, painting and sculpture, and lyrical and instrumental music, interlacing love and death. He compares modern and premodern treatments of key subjects such as Salome and Mary Magdalene, supporting his text with an array of arresting illustrations. In conclusion, he traces this fantasy of carnal love beyond death to the Christian message of spiritual love beyond death, which modern, post- Christian culture has both discarded and salvaged.

In "Love Beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts," Rudolph Binion investigates the various art forms where the conjunction of love and death is found and provides an explanation for this bizarre match. Supporting his text with some of the most sinister, alluring, and provocative images from the nineteenth century, Binion provides the reader with a dizzying account of the development of this artistic obsession, and of its passage into the popular culture of the twentieth century.

Mindfulness Based Art - The SPARKS Guide for Educators and Counselors (Hardcover): Margaret Jones Callahan Mindfulness Based Art - The SPARKS Guide for Educators and Counselors (Hardcover)
Margaret Jones Callahan
R1,865 Discovery Miles 18 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aging and Identity - A Humanities Perspective (Hardcover, New): Sara M. Deats, Lagretta Lenker Aging and Identity - A Humanities Perspective (Hardcover, New)
Sara M. Deats, Lagretta Lenker
R2,775 Discovery Miles 27 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale, while also comparing the attitudes toward aging in Native American, African American, and Anglo American literature. The examples demonstrate that long before gerontologists endorsed a Janus-faced model of aging, artists were celebrating the diversity of the elderly, challenging the bio-medical equation of senescence with inevitable senility. Underlying all of this discussion is the firm conviction that cultural texts construct as well as encode the conventional perceptions of their society; that literature, the arts, and the media not only mirror society's mores but can also help to create and enforce them.

The Total Work of Art - Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations (Hardcover): David Imhoof, Margaret Eleanor Menninger, Anthony... The Total Work of Art - Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations (Hardcover)
David Imhoof, Margaret Eleanor Menninger, Anthony J. Steinhoff
R3,024 Discovery Miles 30 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For two centuries, Gesamtkunstwerk-the ideal of the "total work of art"-has exerted a powerful influence over artistic discourse and practice, spurring new forms of collaboration and provoking debates over the political instrumentalization of art. Despite its popular conflation with the work of Richard Wagner, Gesamtkunstwerk's lineage and legacies extend well beyond German Romanticism, as this wide-ranging collection demonstrates. In eleven compact chapters, scholars from a variety of disciplines trace the idea's evolution in German-speaking Europe, from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond, providing an uncommonly broad perspective on a distinctly modern cultural form.

(RE)Thinking Art - A Guide for Beginners (Hardcover): S Shipps (RE)Thinking Art - A Guide for Beginners (Hardcover)
S Shipps
R3,025 Discovery Miles 30 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"(Re)Thinking "Art": A Guide for Beginners" is a primer that considers the term "art," what it means and why it matters. Rather than being about any particular sort of art --visual or otherwise-- the book addresses the idea of "art" in all, in all its messy complexity, and offers meaningful access to the vast array of human products to which it refers.
Written by an award-winning teacher as a response to students' ongoing challenge, "What is 'art', anyway, and why should I care?"
Aims to bring readers into a meaningful relationship with art and teaches them to think critically and creatively about it - and by extension, about anything else
Provides an ideal introduction to the field for students and anyone interested in art today
Offers a jargon-free, common-sense basis from which to approach the theories that dominate the art world today, for readers who may wish to pursue them further

Thinking About it (Paperback): Sarah Demeuse, Manuela Moscoso Thinking About it (Paperback)
Sarah Demeuse, Manuela Moscoso
R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Art's Teachings, Teaching's Art - Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Tyson... Art's Teachings, Teaching's Art - Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Tyson Lewis, Megan Laverty
R3,629 R2,028 Discovery Miles 20 280 Save R1,601 (44%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume examines the interface between the teachings of art and the art of teaching, and asserts the centrality of aesthetics for rethinking education. Many of the essays in this collection claim a direct connection between critical thinking, democratic dissensus, and anti-racist pedagogy with aesthetic experiences. They argue that aesthetics should be reconceptualized less as mere art appreciation or the cultivation of aesthetic judgment of taste, and more with the affective disruptions, phenomenological experiences, and the democratic politics of learning, thinking, and teaching. The first set of essays in the volume examines the unique pedagogies of the various arts including literature, poetry, film, and music. The second set addresses questions concerning the art of pedagogy and the relationship between aesthetic experience and teaching and learning. Demonstrating the flexibility and diversity of aesthetic expressions and experiences in education, the book deals with issues such as the connections between racism and affect, curatorship and teaching, aesthetic experience and the common, and studying and poetics. The book explores these topics through a variety of theoretical and philosophical lenses including contemporary post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, critical theory, and pragmatism.

The Legal Concept of Art (Hardcover): Paul Kearns The Legal Concept of Art (Hardcover)
Paul Kearns
R3,553 Discovery Miles 35 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this analysis of the regulation of art by law,Dr. Kearns has produced an innovative treatise with both practical and jurisprudential implications. He examines the treatment of art within seven distinct traditional legal subjects, namely obscenity law, copyright law, libel law, the public funding of art, the law of charitable trusts, customs law and the law on the movement of national treasures, identifying in each the specialised problems law faces, not least given the lack of a universally acceptable definition of art. Based primarily on English law, the text achieves an added richness by a comparative dimension including French, American and European Union Law. In this way a unitary idea of how law tackles its operation on art is achieved. This is the first monograph on the holistic treatment of art law in the United Kingdom.

Regimes of Invisibility in Contemporary Art, Theory and Culture - Image, Racialization, History (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017):... Regimes of Invisibility in Contemporary Art, Theory and Culture - Image, Racialization, History (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Marina Grzinic, Aneta Stojnic, Misko Suvakovic
R3,435 Discovery Miles 34 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book places a focus on the regimes of in/visibility and representation in Europe and offers an innovative perspective on the topic of global capitalism in relation to questions of race, class, gender and migration, as well as historicization of biopolitics and (de)coloniality. The aim of this volume is to revisit theories of art, new media technology, and aesthetics under the weight of political processes of discrimination, racism, anti-Semitism and new forms of coloniality in order to propose a new dispositive of the ontology and epistemology of the image, of life and capitalism as well as labor and modes of life. This book is firmly embedded in the present moment, when due to rapid and major changes on all levels of political and social reality the need for rearticulation in theoretical, artistic and political practices and rethinking of historical narratives becomes almost tangible.

Gallery Sound (Hardcover, HPOD): Caleb Kelly Gallery Sound (Hardcover, HPOD)
Caleb Kelly
R3,367 Discovery Miles 33 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sound is an integral part of contemporary art. Once understood to be a marginal practice, increasingly we encounter sound in art exhibitions through an array of sound making works in various art forms, at times played to very high audio levels. However, works of art are far from the only thing one might hear: music performances, floor talks, exhibition openings and the noisy background sounds that emanate from the gallery cafe fill contemporary exhibition environments. Far from being hallowed spaces of quiet reflection, what this means is that galleries have swiftly become very noisy places. As such, a straightforward consideration of artworks alone can then no longer account for our experiences of art galleries and museums. To date there has been minimal scholarship directed towards the intricacies of our experiences of sound that occur within the bounds of this purportedly 'visual' art space. Kelly addresses this gap in knowledge through the examination of historical and contemporary sound in gallery environments, broadening our understanding of artists who work with sound, the institutions that exhibit these works, and the audiences that visit them. Gallery Sound argues for the importance of all of the sounds to be heard within the walls of art spaces, and in doing so listens not only to the deliberate inclusion of sound within the art gallery in the form of artworks, performances, and music, but also to its incidental sounds, such as their ambient sounds and the noise generated by audiences. More than this, however, Gallery Sound turns its attention to the ways in which the acoustic characteristics specific to gallery spaces have been mined by artists for creative outputs, ushering in entirely new art forms.

Deeper than Reason - Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art (Hardcover): Jenefer Robinson Deeper than Reason - Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art (Hardcover)
Jenefer Robinson
R4,012 Discovery Miles 40 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Deeper than Reason takes the insights of modern psychological and neuroscientific research on the emotions and brings them to bear on questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. Robinson begins by laying out a theory of emotion, one that is supported by the best evidence from current empirical work on emotions, and then in the light of this theory examines some of the ways in which the emotions function in the arts. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will make fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in the emotions and how they work, as well as anyone engaged with the arts and aesthetics, especially with questions about emotional expression in the arts, emotional experience of art forms, and, more generally, artistic interpretation. Part One develops a theory of emotions as processes, having at their core non-cognitive 'instinctive' appraisals, 'deeper than reason', which automatically induce physiological changes and action tendencies, and which then give way to cognitive monitoring of the situation. Part Two examines the role of the emotions in understanding literature, especially the great realistic novels of the nineteenth century. Robinson argues that such works need to be experienced emotionally if they are to be properly understood. A detailed reading of Edith Wharton's novel The Reef demonstrates how a great novel can educate us emotionally by first evoking instinctive emotional responses and then getting us to cognitively monitor and reflect upon them. Part Three puts forward a new Romantic theory of emotional expression in the arts. Part Four deals with music, both the emotional expression of emotion in music, whether vocal or instrumental, and the arousal of emotion by music. The way music arouses emotion lends indirect support to the theory of emotion outlined in Part One. While grounded in the science of emotion, Deeper than Reason demonstrates the continuing importance of the arts and humanities to our lives.

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